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It's a radio show, it's a blog, it's the home of Australian music. Monday to Thursday at 9pm, Dom Alessio brings you an hour of amazing new Aussie tunes - from bedroom strummers to the big guns, you'll hear it all. Plus there's the Home & Hosed blog, updated every day with the latest in local music. Stream songs, watch videos or go behind-the-scenes with some of your favourite artists. If you love Australian music, Home & Hosed has you covered.

Next Crop 2011: Redcoats

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Redcoats was conceived in a loungeroom in suburban Melbourne in 2007. The band thrashed its way through pub gigs and line-up changes for a few years, before the members decided to 'get serious', quitting their jobs to be full time musos.

At the start of this year they headed in to the studio with legendary Australian producer Lindsay Gravina (The Living End, Magic Dirt) to lay down tracks for their debut EP. One of those tracks was the moody rock dirge 'Dreamshaker', a song that's been a big hit with triple j listeners.

This year Redcoats were the national support act for legendary grange rockers Stone Temple Pilots and they'll spend their summer playing a run of regional dates alongside Grinspoon.

What's been your most memorable moment so far?

Probably supporting Stone Temple Pilots around Australia at the start of the year. It was our first national tour and at the time we didn't really grasp how big it was. Looking back it was enormous and an amazing experience for us all. Getting to watch a band over and over again that has done it for a long time and see how they go about it was a big learning curve. Being able to see what goes into something of that size was a real eye opener.

Our tour with Calling All Cars too was definitely a real highlight as well. Touring with some guys who we really got along with well was great and the whole month long tour was just a really good time. There was a lot of camaraderie between us all by the end of it.

If you had to listen to one album for the rest of time, what would it be and why?

The Last Waltz. It's the best party there ever was. I can hang out with Bobby D and Neil Young and Joni and Dr. John and Eric Clapton and Van Morrison and Muddy Waters and of course The Band. The ultimate in band companions. It goes for a while too so there are many options for the rest of my time and its all live and all amazing.

What's Redcoats' special secret talent?

We all have our very own special talents. Emilio is a master knitter and pie builder. Neil is excellent at chopping up onions without crying, something I had never seen before he came along. Rhys once went a whole month without thinking about being an eagle so he then decided that would be his special talent and Andrew is really good at counting up to one hundred.

If you could collaborate with one Australian artist, who would it be and why?

I wanted to say Neil Finn but he is a Kiwi, his band is quite Australian though, or at least it was. I would like to learn about melody and composition from him. He is a real master. Let's pretend he is Australian.